Question: You said that I should yearn for the Creator not out of the desire to adhere to Him but from the desire to bestow to Him. How can I draw such a boundary internally in order to really yearn to bestow to Him?

Answer: You can generate and develop this desire in you only if you work together with the group. Envy, lust, and honor, this is what you should have here.

Question: What does it mean that I have a desire to bestow to Him and not to adhere to Him?

Answer: To bestow means to be in contact with the Creator. As He is to you so you are to Him.
Adhesion is a passive action while mutual bestowal is an active one.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 11/28/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘An Ox Knows Its Owner, etc., Israel Does Not Know,’ in the Work?“

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Question: How can we hate evil on one hand, and on the other hand be happy working with it? How can we combine these two opposite feelings?

Answer: These feelings can be combined perfectly. You will see how evil and good help to recognize each other and increase each other.

Although it seems to us that they are ready to destroy each other, in fact, evil brings out good, and good reveals even greater evil, and thus helps a person hate evil and love good.

Question: How important is it to hate evil? Is it enough to understand that you need to move away from evil?

Answer: No, this is not just a calculation in the head, but a feeling in the heart. Both love and hate, should be felt in the heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/21/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Transgression Does Not Extinguish a Mitzva“

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Question: Is it necessary to cause a spiritual craving for adhesion with the Creator?

Answer: Absolutely! But you can only receive it from the friends by looking at them, hearing them, and envying them.

Question: We are supposed to work in joy and gratitude. So why do the sources say: “As is the sorrow, so is the reward”? Why do we have to go through states of suffering again and again?

Answer: It depends on what we consider suffering. If moving away from the Creator even for one minute is perceived by us as suffering, then this quickly brings our thoughts back to the Creator.

Question: How can I not enjoy for my own sake while eating a meal, but bring contentment to the Host?

Answer: Show the host how much you enjoy His food, appreciate the meal, and feel the tastes in each dish so He really receives pleasure from your joy.

Question: We work so much in the ten. Why do we always lose what the Creator gives us?

Answer: We cannot establish the correct connection between us and keep what we receive from the Creator. Therefore, it disappears.

Question: You tell us not to think about the bad. What if these thoughts have become very intrusive, like an annoying fly, to the point of exiting the ten? What can be done in this state?

Answer: Work on yourself. Consider yourself your own enemy.

Question: You say we need to be close but without opening our hearts. What does being close to each other mean?

Answer: Do not open your hearts so as not to interfere with each other. Think about how you can be close without interfering with each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/24/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Labored and Did Not Find? Do Not Believe“

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Question: In one of the comments to the “Preface of The Book of Zohar” you explained: “In fact, the night is full of light, and only we are not able to see at night. We lack the light of love, the light of bestowal—Hasadim, so, to see it.” How should we understand this?

Answer: Very simply, if we had the qualities of bestowal in us and if we wanted to get closer to each other and to the Creator, then we would light up the darkness of the night with our striving and it would shine.

We see only darkness in our relationship, not light. We do not enjoy giving and caring for each other, but enjoy using one another.

Therefore, our method is to correct the state of darkness where I feel very bad bestowing to others and to turn the night into day.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 11/12/23

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The Egyptians despised the food of the Hebrews, since all the bread of the Hebrews, meaning their nourishment, was in order to bestow, and to the Egyptians, all the bread is evil-eyed, namely to receive (Rabash, article No. 13 “What Is the “Bread of an Evil-Eyed Man” in the Work?“).

Question: How can we share the bread of bestowal in dissemination and how can we impress our surroundings?

Answer: Unfortunately you will not delight the external environment with this. They do not have those spiritual roots, and they will not understand you.

With a person who has no connection with the Creator, with spirituality, nothing can be done. And for those who have a connection, you should bring them closer to you, and include them in your work on connection, and from this, they will begin to understand what it means to be closer to each other.

Question: How can we understand and feel that spiritual work is a reward?

Answer: You can verify this only by working in a group.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/24/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is the “Bread of an Evil-Eyed Man” in the Work?“

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Question: In our lessons we study a very deep topic: silence. In the treatise Masechet Avot,: 1:17, which was written 2,000 years ago by our sages, it says: “I grew up my whole life among sages, and have not found anything good for the body besides silence.

Why is silence so lofty: “..and have not found anything good…?”

Answer: Because a person should actually talk to himself. And when one talks to himself, he starts to switch to the Creator too.

Question: Is this how the system works?

Answer: Yes. How can it be that I talk to myself? I talk to the Creator.

Question: What are all the hundreds, thousands, and millions of people around for? They say: “For communication.”

Answer: Not for communication. Communication should be through feelings, internally, particularly through silence. Why talk?

Question: Why are we given speech then?

Answer: This is for extreme cases, I would say. When you sit and figure out some issues with the sages, then it is another matter. But if there is no such opportunity, the best thing is silence.

Comment: But quite often it is uncomfortable to be silent. You feel that someone is waiting for you to engage in a conversation, thinking: “What is going on with him? He does not like something, he is silent.”

My Response: It depends on who and how. If this person is close to you, especially in spirit, you can be silent.

Question: Is the silence you are talking about a conversation with the Creator?

Answer: Silence is precisely a conversation with the Creator. It is good when a person chooses to turn to the Creator this way so that it is always from the heart.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/21/23

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Question: How does spiritual correction happen?

Answer: Spiritual correction takes place gradually. First of all, we must strive to attain the Creator in ever greater connection with each other, in ever greater degree of mutual bestowal, and then we will begin attaining the Creator. That already is considered to be in the world of Atzilut.

In other words, there are a certain number of souls in the system of Adam HaRishon. When they unite, the Creator will be revealed in the connection between them, and then our world will begin to disappear from their perception, i.e., the concealment disappears.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 7/11/23

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Question: The Creator sent the Torah to all the people of Israel. Why did He open the way to Him only to Kabbalists?

Answer: The Creator has done everything so that anyone who wants to can approach Him.

If we don’t understand this now, we will eventually find out that He has no preference for one person over another, a man over a woman, one nation over another, and so on. Otherwise, it would not be the Torah, but something invented by people.

Believe me, the more you reveal the universe and everything that the Creator has created, the more you will be convinced that there are no preferences, no cronyism, nothing.

It all depends on the person himself who advances only in accordance with his efforts. So good luck to you in approaching the Creator and making sure that He treats everyone exactly the same.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/17/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is Support in the Torah, in the Work?”

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